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Dallas Braden

Age: 28
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 185 lb
Number: #51

Born: August 13, 1983 in Phoenix, AZ, United States
MLB debut: April 24, 2007

dbWAR: 6.5
IP: 18.0
ERA: 3.00
FIP: 3.64
K/9: 7.5
FIP−: 92

Dallas Braden was a starting pitcher for the Oakland Athletics. In 2011 he struck out 15 batters over 18.0 innings across 3 appearances, 3 of them starts, going 1-1. His ERA of 3.00 was 23.9% lower than the league average of 3.94. Stripping out defence, his 3.64 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 19.3% of swings (9.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 20.5%. His 0.3 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.

League context

Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2011 regular season.

FIP3.64

K/97.5

WHIP1.28

WAR.3

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.


2011	OAK	3	3	18.0	1	1	18	6	15	5	3.00	3.64	1.28	7.5	2.5	76	92	0.3
2010	OAK	30	30	192.2	11	14	180	75	113	43	3.50	3.80	1.16	5.3	2.0	86	93	2.8
2009	OAK	22	22	136.2	8	9	144	59	81	42	3.89	3.73	1.36	5.3	2.8	90	86	2.5
2008	OAK	19	10	71.2	5	4	77	33	41	25	4.14	4.57	1.42	5.1	3.1	96	106	0.4
2007	OAK	20	14	72.1	1	8	91	54	55	26	6.72	4.50	1.62	6.8	3.2	150	101	0.6

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

																					Trend
2010	OAK	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-126	-0.0
2009	OAK	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.1	-127	-0.1

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2011. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	12	12	4	1	0	2	.333	.333	.750	.467	16.7%
vs RHB	61	56	14	1	5	13	.250	.311	.393	.317	21.3%

Pitch sequencing

What Dallas Braden throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Changeup	33.9%	85	72.0	1,601	43.5%	37.8%	27	.185	.513
Four-Seam Fastball	29.9%	75	87.6	2,209	50.7%	13.8%	15	.400	1.171
Sinker	27.5%	69	86.0	2,132	44.9%	2.9%	18	.222	.500
Curveball	7.6%	19	77.0	667	52.6%	11.1%	8	—	—

Dallas Braden's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.